Food roundup for august 17

Here’s what was being written about today in the world of food and dining news:

Fat City provides some insight into the new trend of marketing wine toward men, and includes possibly the douchiest pic of someone holding up a wine cork ever caught on film.

Flickr: jason lengstorf

See? It really is.

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Clean Plate Charlie cheats and goes with an ale for this week’s installment of cheap wine that doesn’t suck. We’d be more upset about it if we didn’t love beer so much.

With a new season of Top Chef set to kick off this week, Short Order goes behind the line with previous contestant Jeff McInnis.

And lastly, in case you were wondering, Voracious let’s you in on what to do with ground cherries. Best option: try trading them in for fresh ones.